Dr. Gwendolyn Davies
Fellow
Current Employer
University of New Brunswick
Election Year
2004
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
Literature
Department
Professor Emerita - English and School of Graduate Studies
Keywords
Literature of Atlantic Canada, 18th-19th Canadian literature, History of the book in Canada
LONG
Gwendolyn Davies’ specialization in the literary history of Maritime Canada integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the rich cultural life created by the thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to an enduring cultural lineage. Her major focal points include the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers, presented in detailed studies of such authors as Alice Jones and Marshall Saunders, as well as the first scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch’s influential The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters.
SHORT
Gwendolyn Davies integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the cultural lineage of Maritime Canada created by the arrival of thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her detailed studies emphasize the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers.
Gwendolyn Davies’ specialization in the literary history of Maritime Canada integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the rich cultural life created by the thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to an enduring cultural lineage. Her major focal points include the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers, presented in detailed studies of such authors as Alice Jones and Marshall Saunders, as well as the first scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch’s influential The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters.
SHORT
Gwendolyn Davies integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the cultural lineage of Maritime Canada created by the arrival of thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her detailed studies emphasize the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers.